It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow necked bottles: the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.